Electrum Engineering Consortium "EEC"

The Electrum Engineering Consortium (EEC) stands at the nexus of science, industry, and magical theory. Formed as a cooperative alliance between the Eldwell Empire's largest foundries, arcane laboratories, and mechanist guilds, the Consortium exists to regulate, refine, and push forward all technologies based on Electrum. This golden-silver alloy—capable of conducting not only electricity but encoded energetic patterns—has revolutionized nearly every domain of modern life, from weaponry and communications to transportation and medical instruments.

Electrum is notoriously temperamental: improperly refined, it fractures; imprecisely encoded, it destabilizes. To harness it safely and consistently requires enormous coordination. It was this necessity that led to the Consortium’s founding in the early 1800s AF, following several catastrophic failures of rogue or poorly-regulated Electrum devices. Today, the EEC acts as both a regulatory authority and a research powerhouse.

The Consortium publishes technical guidelines that are treated almost as holy writ by engineers. These include standardized encoding practices, purity thresholds, resonance mapping charts, and alignment tolerances for large-scale energic networks. Their work ensures that Electrum-based systems, no matter where they are built in the Empire, remain compatible and stable.

Beyond regulation, the EEC also spearheads massive industrial projects, such as transcontinental energic rails, storm-harvest platforms, and planetary atmospheric monitoring arrays. These projects require precision on a scale few organizations could ever achieve alone, and the Consortium’s ability to unify disparate institutions behind a single technical vision is legendary.

Their influence reaches into every field touched by Electrum—which is to say, nearly all modern technology. Engineers speak of the Consortium with equal parts awe and exasperation: a body too meticulous to cut corners, too ambitious to ever stop refining the world around them.